/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10588955
As a student/intern, how do I deal with cunty or stuck up female coworkers? Usually it's nurses who are under the age of about 30 who treat me like this massive annoyance who can't do anything right and shouldn't even be there. I can just try my best to ignore them, but ultimately I do have to rely on them to learn since I can't learn practical shit without actually doing stuff and getting advice. Had one of them tell me that I know nothing, and then 5 minutes later called me a know it all when I asked for some advice on a procedure in front of a patient (who knew I was a student).
>inb4 grow thicker skin
If it was a male staffer doing this I'd tell him to fuck off, but these cunts know they're untouchable.

>>10588955
Ouran Host Club is unironically a really good anime.

>>10588974
Do stuff without their supervision and see how it goes. If it works, then you won't have to stay "in their shadow" anymore. What is you do that is so hard to learn? Drawing blood?

>>10589000
>Do stuff without their supervision and see how it goes
Oh shit no, not happening. On my first day this one cunt asked me if I knew how to do a procedure, I told her I was confident but would like supervision, she told me to just go do it, I went and did it, she walked in halfway through and told me to do it differently, I sought further explanation because it was different to how we did it in class, she got pissed and took over, then afterwards screamed at me on how dare I question her in front of a patient and that I'm useless. I've improved since then but none of the students at my level are allowed to stuff without supervision. When I do ask for some supervision while they're fucking around on the computer or gossiping they act almost shocked that I have the sheer gall to ask them to do their fucking jobs.

>>10589010
Kek, some nurses really are frustrated. I know they eat med students for breakfast, but not like this. I don't know, do you have a doctor to talk to about these things?

>>10589016
Doctors are rarely around on my shift, and when they are they're busy as fuck. I can occasionally have a talk with the older ones but they're very much the philosophical types and don't seem comfortable teaching younger people. Honestly the only staff in the hospital I can actually shoot the shit with are the orderlies, and while I have a more respect for these lads than I do a lot of nurses, they have pretty limited advice. I'm also usually the only student on the ward so don't know how the other students act, and I don't have the social skills to be a gunner.

>>10589025
You don't need to have social skills to be a gunner. Arrogance is enough. Bad stuff you're going trough, man. I really hope that you'll be able to shake those bitches off your shoulders, they seem to be a huge pain in the ass. At least if they would be more understanding that nobody was born knowing how to do stuff and actually teach you something instead of shitting on you..

>>10589054
Some just can't handle their stress well and will take the time to help you a bit when it's not busy (not often because hospitals employ the bare minimum), but some are just genuine cunts who seem to resent the idea of actually having to work in the job they fucking signed up for. And then some are just completely stuck up and have this massive princess complex. Barely ever had a problem with males, even the fucking surgeons of all people.

>>10588974
*ahem*
FUCK N*RSEOIDS

>>10589071
>even the fucking surgeons
They don't give a fuck about the students unlike nurses do. Students are their only interaction, in the end and only students can make them feel superior, in a way or another. I agree that there are some great nurses too, but some of them think they're on some kind of pedestal. I had my fair share of arrogant nurses when I had rotations in the ED, they gave me the role of the porter, basically I was their courier boy (had to get blood samples up to the lab and get patients to rads department) until the attending took me and a colleague under her wing and stopped the bitches. The only excellent nurse I had interaction with was in the IM ward and let me draw blood, do ECGs unsupervised because I already knew how to do them.

Doesn’t ERT up the risk of cancers in transexual males?

>>10589123
Not sure. Can only find studies of ERT in women at menopause, and breast cancer in males.

re-posting this from the other thread

>>10589170
not endorsing the comment at the bottom btw, it isn't mine.
just think the posts are interesting

>>10589170
More light reading for you.
How is stuff like this seen in the medical community? Does anyone support this besides the doctors who actually do the surgery?

>>10589170
i feel bad for him

>>10589170
>>10589178
Why would you? That's how people get on suicide watch or actually do it. He wanted to get rid of his penis, I'm shocked that his gf didn't object or something.

>>10589178
>>10589211
>him

Patient had idiopathic raynaud’s and palmar hyperhidrosis, could this be some kind of sympathetic overactivity? Im saying ‘some kind’ because there is no other usual symptoms of it.

Post:

Country
Year of study/practice
Speciality you want to go into
Least favourite specialty

and be judged by your fellow /med/ peers

>UK
>Just finished med school
>Anaesthetics
>Obstetrics & Gynaecology

>>10589341
You're fine.

>Romania
>4th year
>Family medicine
>Gen surgery

>>10589025
>the only staff in the hospital I can actually shoot the shit with are the orderlies
that's pretty based, anon

Are Hapas too mentally unstable to be doctors?

>>10589341
>binland
>finished my residency a few years back
>psychiatry
>psychiatry

>>10589451
>>psychiatry
>>psychiatry
Are you tired of your spec? What's it like?

>>10589449

honest people are unfit to be doctors in 2019
everything you say can be used against you and almost nothing will support you

What are some interesting opportunities for MDs outside of hospital work, private practice or research?

>>10589473
becoming a Chief Medical Officer.

>>10589451
Huh..I knew psychs are a bit fucked in the head, but are you sure you're not bipolar, doc?

>>10589341
Ok. Which part do you like more? Intensive care or anaesthesia?

>>10589345
Weird, liking a general spec and disliking another.

>>10589451
Bipolar.

>>10589490

wow, I'm surprised to find that this is actually a thing. I thought it was just from Star Trek

>>10589473
Then why the fuck did you went into medicine?

>>10589715
It's a hypothetical, pajeet.

>>10588955
So recently i've been talking to this girl, just two days ago. I'm an autist who had up until now lost hope in finding someone I like that fits my very specific interests, but miraculously I have. Since talking to her my heart hasn't stopped beating at a steady pace, fairly strong as well. Felt pretty weak the past two days before, today I think that's gone away though. I'm guessing this should be benign, but either way, why do I feel like this? I know its because of her, but I don't know why.

>>10589934

>>10589950
it doesn't, and I don't know i've tried to calm myself down, breathing excercises, but it hasn't helped. Maybe i'm just doing them wrong I don't know.

>>10589960
I was baiting, dude. You're fucking nuts. Hypochondriac as fuck.

>>10589964
I mean I doubt its anything serious, I just haven't felt this way before

>>10589969
next time go to /adv/, this shit is a bit different.

>>10589971
Not him but /adv/ is a cesspool, one of the worst boards.

>>10589975
And what he wrote is an adequate /adv/ post.

for optometry kids, anyone know if there's a name for the phenomenon where I get a sort of pulsating shimmer around the center of my visual focus when outside where it's very bright? The shimmer sort of reduces the brightness some. I can almost always perceive it when I go to the beach.

I don't have any medical problems, at worst I wear glasses, and the shimmer doesn't interfere with my ability to see things clearly. No migraines, headaches, etc.

>>10590723
also I'm asking just because I want to read up on it, I just want to be spoonfed a name for this since google is failing me

>>10590730
it's also something I've had all my life so I doubt it's brain cancer or anything like that by the way, I've never heard anyone talk about this before and when I've tried to describe it to others they have no idea what I mean

>visited my new workplace
>boss did a presentation
>friend of mine who wanna do the same specialisation came with me
>he thinks the same as me: Boss is cool, wants to help us advance, supports research, pays above the cut
>my friend also considere starting there

Well, hopefully only half of the staff he promised is right, but I have a bretty gud feeling

Studying for the USMLE. Just got neurology & ortho out of the way. Choose what I go for next?

>>10589339

nigga need a smoke. think simple, student.

>>10589473
>What are some interesting opportunities for MDs outside of hospital work, private practice or research?

Lawn care
Telemarketing
Exciting call center opportunities
Automotive repair

and don't forget the big one....

Truck driving school.

>>10591192
path

>>10588955
Oh fucking lord. Decided to masturbate again after almost a half year. Then when I was about to cum I ejaculated a huuuuuugeeeeeeee long ray. And then I remembered why I hate to masturbate. It's because of this.
Don't tell me to masturbate in the bathroom ewww.
Instead tell me how I can stop pissing while fapping. Also maybe important to know but every time I go to the bathroom it feels very great. In a sexual way. Like I don't orgasm but it's like I am fapping. Oh god then I moan. Not shitposting. But then my brother from another room says stfu retard stop making weird sounds. And I say I'm in pain, probably due stones. Oh god. I likely have urinary incontinence. But what are some causes of that? Or do I have something else?

Can doctors develop medicines?

>>10590723
describe it better or draw it

>>10591436
Non-smoker, no substance dependance, everything else seemed normal.

>>10591622
Yes

>>10591866
What do they need to be specialized in? Also, do you by any chance know what the part is called that attaches my ear lobe to the starting point of my jaw? It has a decade long wound that can't seem to fuck off. What is going on?

>>10591880
Clinical pharmacology. It's a spec that is pretty popular in Romania, don't know about the rest of the countries.

About your other question, I have no idea. Ear lobes usually aren't attached to the jaw. Maybe the scarring process attached them? I'm not sure.

>>10591894
Ah yeah. Thanks.
Also, sorry, meant to say above the starting point of my jaw. I'd look like a very weird creature if it was on my jaw lmfao. But see pic. Scarring? They hurt a lot and smell like blood when i rub them. It has happened ever since i pulled off my sweater in a hurry and it touched my ears, both of them. I bled a loooot. And then they healed better, no more crusts after 9 years. And 10 years later it got to a point i still feel a slight wound.

>>10591983
Well description was clear enough but with a pic it would have been

>>10591988
Truly the ear of an individual with weak genes

>>10588955
do you guys ever give sloppy or inadequate care to people you feel are fundamentally inferior as humans either genetically, spiritually or otherwise? Just wondering

>>10591988
Lmao some people have those kind of earlobes while others are more attached it is genetic. You may have trauma there too so it is no longer attached but it looks healed just separate, what is the problem here except cosmetic?

>>10591996
Of course not, weaker need more help, to become strong and healthy.

>>10592031
This was meant for this>>10591998

>>10589449
>Are Hapas too mentally unstable to be doctors?
fuck off back to /pol/, kid

>>10591998
No. My mom has this kid in her pt list that comes in every two or three days. The poor kid is paralysed from the waist down and he has problems speaking. (6 y/o) He gets infections easily and always comes in for treatment. His parent aren't happy and anyone could see that, they look miserable although they're in the upper class. My mom and her nurse are taking care of him a bit more than the "normal" patient, because he needs it. I haven't seen any doctor act differently towards a patient, profession wise, even the filthy gypsies.

>>10591998

I know the question you are asking starts with :"do you guys" and although a lot of the people here probably try to give the same level of care to each patient you have to realize that generalizations are not a good idea regardless of whether the subject matter is positive or negative. Of course some doctors give sloppy, inadequate care to certain patients. That is inevitable. Some of the people going to medical school are absolutely horrendous, narcissistic, garbage human beings. Not to mention there is immense stigma in regards to mental illness among medical professionals themselves. Many "mentally ill" doctors refrain from seeking treatment because they know it will harm their reputation and make their colleagues gossip.

>>10592203
>horrendous
>narcissistic
Soo...surgeons?

>>10592204

You said the same thing in the last thread. And my response is the exact same.

YES. FUCK YES, FUCK SURGEONS

>>10592206
What makes surgeons so bad? Are all surgery specs the same in that regard?

>>10592206
Kek, exactly. Any kind of surgery is an okay spec but the ones that practice it are fucking apes.

>>10592213
Urology, OB/GYN, ENT and ophto are the chilliest. The rest are made by narcissistic pieces of shit.

So...from today until monday, mom's private practice is closed, we're only accepting minor emergencies.

>10 in the morning
>hear front door open
>"E-excuse me, could you please help me?"

It's a guy a long superficial cut along both of his hands while he was skinning a lamb. Mom patches him up, dude good to go. Comes back with lamb ribs and lamb shanks.

Kek, I fucking love this speciality, especially in this suburban area.

>>10592225
>the ones that practice it are fucking apes.
The dumbest doctors I've met definitely weren't surgeons

>>10592489
applies to you. The dumbest piece of shit was an ortho surgeon who couldn't stop swearing, especially when he was explaining stuff.

>"So this shit here is where the fracture occured and HOLD THAT FUCKING SHIT TIGHTER, I CAN'T SEE!"

Gen surg and cardiothoracic is next. Gen surgs are snowflakes that can't handle any criticism from other specs while cardiothoracic surgeons think too highly of themselves when their speciality is basically revolving around valves and leaflets.

I personally dislike their god complex and arrogant attitude towards co-workers. I know that they don't do well with students, but with your fucking co-workers? (Nurses, porters, residents, other attendings)

>>10592504
What about neuro?

>>10592522
Haven't had neurosurg yet, can't say anything about it.

>>10592504
>applies to you

Whereas *your* anecdotes are representative, right?

Medicine isn't a science. It's to biology what engineering is to physics

>>10592547
For me, yes. Maybe you encountered great surgeons that taught you stuff.

What's the final solution to the Premed Question?

>>10592627
What's the premed question?

>>10592204
>>10592206
>>10592213
Some of the chillest and kindest doctors i’ve seen have been surgeons, specially old fellows.

>>10592554
>biology
Oh sweet summer child, you have no idea how many fields and subfields you have to grasp to have good understanding of mechanisms going on into human body

>>10592637
Yeah, I can't bad mouth the old ones. They really are chill and understanding from my experience and I wish that they were the ones teaching us.

>>10592641
Don't feed him (You)'s. Apparently he forgot that you can hide threads.

>>10592627
Permanent ip ban

>>10592504
Some people perform better when they act arrogant. Still sucks for those who have to work with them though.

>>10592627
Openly mocking them. Belittling them. Hopefully discouraging them from medicine entirely. Remember, pre-meds aren't interested in medicine. They're interested in becoming doctors. That leads to a high amount of brainlets.

>>10592641
>Oh sweet summer child,
time to go back to >>>/reddit/, bucko.

>>10592912
wait weren't all doctors pre-meds once? TF?

>>10592907
>some people perform better when they're arrogant
Never considered this. But most of them were arrogant outside the OR too.

>>10592637
Best doctor I ever met was actually who most would think would be the most narcissistic; a brain surgeon. Younger guy too. I guess he figured he better be good to staff if he was gonna be stuck in the OR for 12+ hours with them.

>>10592955
Well, he's smarter than most of the surgeons, then.

>>10592929
nope, premed is a brainlet major for those who are not actually interested in science. In the US you can major in literally anything and as long as you take the few requisite science classes, you are essentially on equal standing to get into med school (ignoring research opportunities that might be easier for certain majors).. But if they do care about science they can do Biology or Biochemistry or some such very easily and that would be helpful in their future. Like the other one says, premed only care about being a doctor. I don't know if it leads to more brainlets in the field but it is sad for some reasons

>>10592980
Oh, by premed I thought you meant anyone who wanted to be a doctor and was taking the medschool required courses. I'm from the US and I've never heard of premed as a major although I have heard of biology tracks which cover the prerequisites so students don't have to worry.

>>10592641

>>10593169
This has literally nothing to do with the one you replied to.

>>10592460

So do you think you could say that you now can here their silence?

>>10593224
>mfw that guy was hannibal

>>10592026
It is not my ear. And it has not fully healed not even after a decade. I always had seperate lobes.

>>10593234

the history does seem to point in that direction.

>>10593245
It certainly does. Now I'm waiting for the lamb parts to cook in the oven. I swear to god, in this suburban area, people are so cool and offer so much respect towards the physician, I have no idea why.

>>10592917
You should do the same summerfag

>>10593192
I realize that, I was just too lazy to fix it.

>surgeons are cool

>>10593334
what are they doing

>>10593356
I have no idea but I almost died laughing.

>>10593334

yfw the halothane leaks, the entire OR goes insane, and orthopod tries reliving his high school baseball days

>>10593334
Ah yes- the gentle healing touch of the orthopod.

>>10593410
It's called extreme precision surgery.

>>10593000
The pre-meds who do take bio as their major, which isn’t necessary at all to apply to med school mind you, always take the easiest courses with the lowest possible investment and rigor to get the bachelors. Every single premed I go to school with is like this, and they will do anything for a higher grade including fucking people over by skewing grading curves and forming study packs to game exams.

>>10592980
So american premeds can major in some bullshit like art history as long as they take a few relevant bio courses? jesus

>>10593476
Same with many U.K. schools. I’m not sure what the problem is; most of the material learned in medical school is not difficult stuff.

>>10593476
It's not like you gain that much more from bio undergrad. Hell, I'm pretty sure studying ecology gets you a bio degree at most schools.
The other day I was talking to a senior bio undergrad who thought deoxygenated blood was blue.

So I got tested for lyme and coinfections and only had 2 of the needed 5 markers for lyme come back positive (whatever that means). I've recently come out of a bad bout of brainfog, anxiety, and depression, along with still persistant visual snow, after images, and greater light sensitivity. Some days over the last two months I had bad tension headaches, felt fevery without fever, weeks where I'd wake up every night, and days where I was to depressed/tired to do anything physical. More recently my nerves have been tingly, particularly when stressed. My vision also wobbles ever so slightly, even when I don't move my eyes, like my pulse is making my head bob or something. MRI was taken and came clean. So because of the blood findings my doc perscribed 21 days on doxycycline. If it's late stage lyme, both based on my symptoms and due to me having been bitten by ticks at least 4 times previously in my lifetime that I know of, I wanted to know. Likelihood it'll be resolved with the meds? Anyone here have success stories? I'm starting to take a probiotic every day as well along with eating better to reduce the damage the doxy will surely do to my digestive system. Anything else I should do? Trying to garner as much advice on this as I can.

>>10593509
This. I had my bio bachelors after a year (2 semesters) because my major (microbiology- mycology) had me power down bio classes. I'm only a few classes off from a pre-med but why in the fuck would I bother with that? I'll have a master's soon enough in mb, but honestly besides some basic shit from zoo and popsci the only things I know about the human body are the things that LIVE in the human body. Like I know E. Coli in ass is normal, but E. Coli in your gut is a bad day (week), and it turns your eye bloodshot if it gets there. Strep causes no less than 10 illnesses, all depending on where it lands. Candida as a genus can be found throughout the body, but depending on species and depending on where changes whether its a curious phenomenon, good for you, annoying, or lethal. I can tell you all these things, but I have no idea what half the organs we have actually do.

>>10593988
>(2 semesters)
Fucking left middle finger, 3 semesters.

>>10593334
>>10593356
They are orthopedic surgeons using a slap hammer to removing implanted hardware, probably a prosthetic knee joint or an intramedullary rod. Usually this operation is done when there is a repeat fracture (periprosthetic fracture), or the hardware fails or becomes infected.

Originally, when the knee replacement or rod operation was performed, the prosthetic was literally reamed into the bone and then cemented in place. The hardware
was intend to take a lifetime of abuse without moving after it is set.

So when the surgeons have to now remove this cemented joint, they slap hammer

It's actually one of the more stressful parts of the operation if the hardware won't come out easily, and not nearly as funny as the clip makes it seem.

>>10593410
>>10593411
but I still lol'd

>>10588955
hello /med/ I am a rocket dork and I would just like to say
>me on the left
okay I love you guys good luck <3

>>10594045
Well, I imagine being under a lot of pressure considering that you can add at least 3 more fractures to his already fractured bone.

>>10594045
now that I looked closely, its probably just a component extractor and a good old mallet rather than the slap hammer.


What's the difference between a mechanic and an orthopedic surgeon?

The mechanic can name more than one antibiotic

>>10594071
Kek

What is long, hard and pink in an orthopod's hand?

An ECG

>>10593988
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

>>10593476


>>10592912
>Remember, pre-meds aren't interested in medicine. They're interested in becoming doctors.

Never heard this before, but it's perfect

>>10594247

>>10594184
Mitochondria is optional, eukaryotes are better known, but prokaryotes are the once and future masters of life. After all, the simpler it is, the harder it is to kill. I mean, that sounded cool, but dying from an Archaea would be weaksauce as fuck. Also that statement wasn't true, we have to examine old "empty" slides and petri dishes for still living remnants before they can be disposed (depending on what was in them) or reused. And 90% of the things that shrug off everything from gamma radiation to extreme cold to hydroflouric acid are protists.

Worth it to start medicine at 25? I'm in Europe and med school is 6 years here. I have a masters in biochem so I have a few exemptions (?) so in total it'll be closer to 5 years, which still means I'll be 30. Pretty old desu. But I hate my job and my job prospects right now

>>10593864
Post Lyme Disease syndrome is a complicated.

Be extremely cautious about anything you read on the internet, "chronic lyme disease" is in the same group of bullshit of pseudoscience as anti-vaccination or the EM drive.

You need to ask your questions to an actual medical doctor, ideally one who specializes in Infectious Diseases.

>>10592504
It honestly sounds like you just work in a shit hospital.

I've worked with some shithead surgeons, but overall this >>10592637 has been more of my experience.

>>10594261
Looks good. I have a friend that's in the last year of medschool. Started at 25, he'll be 31 later this year. Never give up.

>>10594279
>work
I don't earn any $$, I'm just a student.

>>10593864
Chronic lyme has about as much behind it as morgellons

https://www.ammi.ca/Content/03.17.19%20AMMI%20Canada%20Position%20Statement%20%28EN%29.pdf

>>10594256
have you ever considered the reason you don't know anything about anything is because of the course load you took and your lack of personal studies or curiosity?

>>10588974
>>10588974
>As a student/intern, how do I deal with cunty or stuck up female coworkers

First - stop asking this fucking question at the beginning of each of these threads. I'm suspecting why you are treated like shit is because you are acting like a shithead. Second - ignore them.

The End.

>>10594247
I believe it's actually a trend in med admissision now to give more weight to non-science majors, as ridicilous as that sounds. they want more 'rounded' classes. once the gunners figure that out get ready for premeds splashing paint on your canvas and chipping your sculptures in the one class you took to relax

>>10594265
>Be extremely cautious about anything you read on the internet, "chronic lyme disease" is in the same group of bullshit of pseudoscience as anti-vaccination or the EM drive.

I has got the fibro-my-all-low-gee-huh and the doctor say I can't work. I know I'm jus 22 and the pain doesn't always hurt's but I need medication for it and the trigger points always start with a job application and credit card bill. I tried calllin 1-800-FIBRO-MAYALGIAHURTS-ANDYOUMIGHTBEENTILEDTOAREWARD but they lawyer's hasnt called me back yet.

What to do

is med school a good deal financially if your parents can pay for it?

>>10594096

ECG. Orthopedic surgery.

What for- to flip over and take notes while on the phone with his bookie?

>/med/
Not science or math

>>10594585
Nerd detected. Back to your math homework bitch.

>>10589341
Canada
2nd year student
Cardiology
OB/GYN

all specialties other than mine are literal cavemen

extreme lack of biology in this thread for being /med/ desu senpai

>like 2 billion people get headaches
>can be a symptom of a fucking aneurysm

>lol we don't know why they happen or anything useful about them XDDD

>>10594471
??? Prokaryota don't have mitochondria. That's what makes them not-eukaryota. Unless you mean anything about anatomy. I just never took an interest in the body, beyond what grows there, or putting my dick in somebody else's. Mycology's an interesting field that doesn't get much love, everyone tries to shove you with the botanists and ecologists, which is weird as fuck considering fungi are more akin to animals than plants. My favorite coursemate is a viralogist, probably because we're both the lone wolves, the only of our kind in the entire building. But we're not the pariahs, premeds are the pariahs. The kind of people who watched House and said I wanna be the guy. And they know all about the human body, or they tell you they do. But they don't know this field as well as they should to be the guy. The real meds, the pharmabros, the botanists, the bioengineers, etc. they know what they don't know. And they ask the others when something falls out of their knowledge realm, we all do. Because medicine is not a one man job, and I don't need to know jackshit about the human body to get penicillium to try to make stronger antibiotics to fight the bacteria that are growing immune to them. My friend doesn't need to know the anatomy of an eye to produce chemicals to help t-cells kill viruses. The med guys don't need to know how sexual selection works in C. Rugosa to prescribe an antifungal. What we need to know is how to do our portion. And human anatomy isn't mine.

>>10594678
we know a lot about primary headaches an migraine, and there's some neat new drugs on the horizin (erenumab literally just hit the market).
It's secondary headache that's really tricky.

>>10594702
Ok, then how do i differentiate between types of headaches based on area and type of pain?

I cannot even find a canonical map of where tension headaches manifest

>>10594706
It's all informed pain, so you don't.

>>10594690
I mean do you know anything about genetics, ecology or evolution? That's really the foundations for all of biology, at least as far as theoretical work goes. Everything else is ephemeral besides cmol

>>10594710
your field is chock full of copouts like this

>>10594706
>>10594706
>I cannot even find a canonical map of where tension headaches manifest

Well, if you're looking for some academic rigor look (no) further.... as there's always this high yield map from a peerless-unreviewed evidence Grade T recomme dation if you need a picture show of where headaches start and what each subjectively reports as such:

https://www.pinterest.com/coolkirk55/headaches-chart/

>>10594742
all i want is a fucking way to alleviate my concern when i have one

i'm used to chestpain and can check for ST elevation in no time flat with a mobile ECG but i have no tools for headaches having not had them for my entire life until now

i guess it not being splitting pain and being young and not having neurological / vision / balance / etc symptoms is enough for most people but i want more

>>10594744
>i'm used to chestpain and can check for ST elevation in no time flat with a mobile ECG but i have no tools for headaches having not had them for my entire life until now

please no. if you have unstable angina see your PCP and get a stress test referral after your labs come back. using some app based software to screen for an MI is just asking for trouble and not how they are diagnosed.


etiology of headache is as vague as nerve damage, vasculitis, infection, psych, drug-induced, to one of 100 other possibilities. also get a full lab panel and ask your PCP for a neurology referral.

this is general advice only as no doctor-patient relationship is implied. i hope you feel better.

>>10594751
>please no. if you have unstable angina see your PCP and get a stress test referral after your labs come back
it's not fucking angina, i've had it for two years, it's muscular

>>10594753

self-diagnosed?

>>10594759
no, i've forced my docs to give me all relevant tests. Can't give myself an echo after all.

sure is neat how there's no test to confirm costochondritis :^)

apparently you can't even image it on typical MR sequences

>>10594715
>I mean do you know anything about genetics, ecology or evolution?
Yeah. Ecology bored me. But a lot of mb is observing evolution as it happens. Strong Genetics and Evo backgrounds are a must for micro. So is biochem. Beyond just requirements for classes, to even understand the materials. Ecology, although I called it boring, is perhaps the most important of the foundations. On small scales life happens quickly, what takes millenia to change in higher order animals takes weeks, sometimes only days to occur in microbes. Not to mention sideways transfer that can jump the whole process. Then there's human tools that can force changes, and it dominos through the whole habitat. Even environmental science has a chance to shine, as human refuse and pollution change ecosystems and bacteria are always the early adapters. So yeah, I absorbed a lot, and forgot a lot (maths) or never retained it (botany). But I learned that mistake. I took (audited[just walked into the class]) Chem 1 despite testing out after struggling on basic things in biochem. I rushed through my first year and regretted it. I haven't done it since.

>>10594769
biochem is barely even chem, 99% of it is just the same reaction - nucleophilic attack
it's more "let's memorize 500 vaguely gibberish sounding enzyme names and how their pathways intersect"

>>10594763
>costochondritis

it's a clinical diagnosis of exclusion. i'm sure as part of the differentials although rare you've been screened for Tietze syndrome

>>10594788

nucleophile internet defense force member detected

>>10594790
>diagnosis of exclusion
i don't have a tired enough frog for this

i don't blame you since it's just how things are, but it's so fundamentally fucking annoying

>>10594794

most of the body's itisusususes if not infectious or autoimmune etiology are a fucking rabbit hole chasing endeavor that only run up costs and lead to outcomes such as the frustration you're expressing. know that true costo is self-limiting.

>>10594796
it's not about clinical reasons, it's about fucking philosophical reasons

>>10594769
should consider looking into theoretical ecology, much more interesting than what most undergrads are exposed to.
>>10594788
needn't be chem to be pertinent to the study of biological systems or interesting to biochemists.

>>10594567
>to flip over and take notes while on the phone with his bookie?

>>10594627
Spec?

What is the most unironically intellectual spec?
Don't fucking say psychiatry.

>>10595008
Neurology.

>>10595010
Neuro is full of pseuds.

>>10594056
Good luck to you too

>>10595012
But it's still the most "intellectual". If you want to be "The jack of all trades, master of none and sometimes better than master of one", then go for family med or IM, both of them being challenging towards your "intellect"

>>10594071
>>10594096
Where should you hide the money so orthopod can’t find it? In the library

>>10595018
No I'm just wondering what the most complex/intellectually challenging specialty is.

>>10595022
Saw that coming.

>>10595024
Well, most of them are.

>>10595024
Chiropractic

>>10595036
Is that shit real? More hours than an MD just to crack bones? These lads have lower IQ than an orthopod.

*coughs*

>>10595170
See your family physician.

>>10595170
It's just stress you'll be fine
That'll be a hundred dollars please

>>10595024
Neuro or Rheumato

Choose one.

>>10595172
I'm that anon's insurer, actually you owe us $5 for the privilege of treating him. Don't worry you'll make it up on volume

>>10594463
>>10594265
So I shouldn't be scared of this shit and expect the antibiotics to do their job? I'm going to take them I'm just reading all these unsuccessful stories and was getting disheartened.

Is being a ship's doctor worth it?

>>10595612
Fine by me. Aerospace medicine seems better IMHO.

>>10595036
The chad chiro vs the virgin MD

I think where I'm from (Canada), Chiropractors also take a class on business or something to that effect. It's where they learn how to push and sell themselves on social on media.

I'm convinced that they're explicitly told in this class to put "dr." in front of their instagram account names. I follow one chiropractor and his likes/comments are flooded with dr so and so.

>>10595465
What do rheumatologists actually do all day? I was under the impression that they see 99% "fibromyalgia" and "chronic pain" and 1% weird autoimmune shit.

>>10595651
>It's where they learn how to push and sell themselves on social on media.

Yeah, they become anti-vaxx and take money from soccer moms.

>>10595654
The things is that even rheumatologists don't know most of the time but they can offer treatment (Basically the opposite of neuro). They do joint injections, joint echos and stuff like that. The occasional Lupus patient, some patients with gout and the list goes on.

>>10594261
You'll still work for 35-40 years. Go for it.

>>10594565
>is free med school a good deal
If you you think real hard, you might figure this one out.

>>10595755
>tfw in your shithole country med school is free
>tfw the country gives you money if you're a top student
Such is Romania.

First year pharmacy student here. I love it so far, but the school is really making us feel like a bunch of cucks.
>Automation is quickly expected to take over our dispensing roles
>Have the knowledge and training to diagnose and prescribe meds for certain disease states, but physicians in my state (Texas) are adamantly against it.
Feels so bad man.

>get swol
>start brushing teeth too hard
>have receding gumline and exposed roots
Will I ever be able to regrow my gums, /sci/?

>>10595036

DC is an excellent education without any post-graduate support. If there were similiar DO residency slots for physical medicine/ortho/neuro then you would see fantastic results. It's unfortunate and part of the reason for the reputation many have. FYI allopathic physicians were doing similar things 70 years ago but the federal government got them regulated and within defined parameters while chiropractic lingers under tort reform and loss of revenue streams as a form of restricted practice. I am sure few of you understand this. Still, this infographic is accurate.

>>10595859

you're not taught the diagnostic process and understand the approach to the patient. you guys come in halfway into the story. however, it's probably the most important part of it.

>>10595859
I'd only give you the right to treat pts with chronic diseases. As someone who wants to do family medicine, that would mean less work for me.

Does diagnostic rad have interesting research opportunities going on?

>>10595956

I have something that looks like eggs in my hair/scalp
I also have eczema looking rashes on my cheek and forehead, and dry hair and beard in general

The rashes are almost gone now after I tried a rosacea cream, cortison creams made it slightly better before that.

But I'm wondering about these "eggs", it itches pretty bad sometimes, and sometimes I catch these yellowish/white eggshaped transparent and hard things attached to the bottom of my hair, but not totally stuck like it says lice eggs should be...
They vary in size from grain of sand to almost brown sugar, thinking of it, they are really much like a slightly smaller grain of brown sugar both in how they feel and look.

What could they be? It doesnt feel at all like regular dandruff.

>>10595859
go into quantitative pharmacology

Talk me out of taking gonadotropin, friends. It seems like it would only make my balls fucking massive, which is what I'm looking for. It's used in treating hypogonadism, so it should increase the volume of the testicles. Anyone wanna chime in?

>have had problems with EBV in the past, minor splenomegaly a few years back, nothing since
>have had pains in that area for 4 days now
>can't properly breathe in or turn without it hurting
>now starting to get nauseus from the pressure
>pains up my left midclavicular line
I should probably get that checked sooner than later, don't I.

Should I go through with the sexual reassignment surgery?

>>10596241
Yes.

>>10588974
nurse here, often we have the perception that it's the docs that are untouchable. On issues like lying to patients, being a cunt with how you communicate, and so on nobody is going to fire you or discipline you over it but it's not the case for us.

Had a doc gaslight a patient, pt had paradoxical reaction to versed in chart, doc didn't read chart, says pt is going to get versed and some other things for a colonoscopy, argument ensues, doc then denies ever mentioning versed. Too long to post but doc left to read the chart and never did more than once, lied directly to the patient, talked down to her, and after all this the CRNA was still going to give versed if not for pt confronting them about it. Doc should have been canned, incompetent twat but she'll keep her job till she kills someone, and even that might not be enough.

>>10596302
Sounds like dandruff

>>10596333
Nobody cares about the size of your balls. There can be side effects simply with the drugs, and you are going to kill your gonadoliberin secretion, the effect of which is really not know at all. So at least get regular labs done while you do it.

>>10596673
>Nobody cares about the size of your balls
I said in the post that I did, isn't that what's important? Larger balls probably come with bigger loads and more test productions as well.

>So at least get regular labs done while you do it.
That's a good idea, I'll make sure to do that, thanks.

>>10595891
I had gum recession surgery a while back when I was in high school, its very minor and wasn't a bad surgery at all

Results were great and one has ever pointed out or noticed anything

>>10596584
nope

What's the current best option for vertebra surgery? Kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty are both strongly discouraged from what I've seen, and spinal fusion also seems rather imperfect as you lose flexibility in a number of vertebrae in order to stabilise one. Where is the research going?
Got an L1 anterior wedge fracture myself, the hospital initially diagnosed it as just a paraspinal muscle spasm and didn't even bother to xray so I went an entire year without finding out. It healed fairly well except that I have trouble sitting up unsupported without an ache, but the GP didn't recommend surgery. Is there anything around the corner in the next 15-20 years of development where a single crushed vertebra can be swapped out cleanly with an artificial one? I escaped all damage to the nervous system but this still wears on me as I'm only 21
Picrelated

>>10597086
>Is there anything around the corner in the next 15-20 years of development where a single crushed vertebra can be swapped out cleanly with an artificial one?

No but it's likely they'll make surgeries better so that they don't have an unreasonably high chance of failure like they do now

What's the best residency for research?

>>10595859
Work at the VA or Kaiser they let pharmacists prescribe and do way more. Youre gonna have to work hard if you dont want to end up behind a CVS counter

>>10595956
>>10595036
Here's why that is bullshit.

1) There's no entrance exam for chiropractic, for starters.
2) People go into Chiropractic straight out of high school, I think.
4) Become a "Doctor" of Chiropractic in 4 years.
It's harder to be a fucking dentist or a podiatrist.

5) Whereas...
Medicine is:
>4 years undergrad
PLUS
>4 years med school
BUT you still can't practice because you need to do residency, so:
>ADD another 2 years to be GP
>ADD another 4 years to be an internist
>ADD another 5 years years for internal medicine sub-specialities
then
ADD more year/s for further sub-specialization

>>10595651
that is a shameful scam

How well can you classify renal cysts via ultrasound?
Went in for something else but while discussing it, they said it may be IIF or up.
Obviously I'll have to get it properly looked at but how fucked am I based on that?

Here /med/, have a picture of my brain.
Sorry, not sure what sequence this is.

>>10594744
You sound like a neurotic hypochondriac faggot and you should go to the psychiatrist to get anxiety meds

Fucking rheumatoid arthritis is worse than someone forcing you to browse /soc/ 8 hours a day, med anons. Do a fellow anon a favor and whip up a cure straight out of your asses by tomorrow.

>>10597236
>People go into Chiropractic straight out of high school, I think.

Rest of post is trash based on your global ignorance. You really should get in the habit of looking up shit before you speak. You will get into trouble one day with that arrogance, anonymous imageboard or not. Best of luck.

>>10594261
I started med school at 26. Starting residency now. I have some time sensitive worries regarding fellowships but have no regrets about the career in general.

>>10595024
Any specialty can be intellectually challenging if you lean toward research. Maybe rad/onc?

>>10594690
virology is fucking awesome, I really want to go into that but I don't know where to start. microbiology in general is the best
I even thought about pathology but I don't know if I have it in me to become a doctor

>>10594261
what's your current job?

>>10597455
not him but you seem to be a bit assblasted, anon. MD's > Chiro. It doesn't matter what the fuck they study, the experience is totally different and chiro is for brainlets that failed to get into a medical school.

>>10597520
What concerns do you have, if you don't mind sharing? Did your age affect your residency/career choice? Will potentially be starting at 26 as well

>>10597118
Path/clinical lab. Stop asking the same question.

>>10596924
not him but thank you very much for posting

>>10597892
>tfw interested in path but put off by the carcinogenics exposure

Pls sci answer me why peeing gives me peegasm? When I google they only say the type you hold in for some time gives you ogasums but i don't hold them in since I pee frequently.

>>10597926
That's why they are paid so well.

>>10598058
No amount of money is worth guaranteed cancer anon

>>10598060
I think the cancer rate is low, tbf. The only case I heard of (Romania) was a 50 something pathologist (some professor) started to have some headaches and chest pains. (Note: He mostly did autopsies since the path lab got one slide in 3 days) And when he decided to get a CT scan his right lung was full of tumours, long story short, he died in 3 months.

>>10598073
Eh it's still something. Also it's not like path is that well paid compared to other specs so even in that regard it doesn't sound worth it

>>10598074
Here path is paid very well. Especially if they want to do research. You're not a human anymore and spend a lot of time with cadavers and in dark rooms looking up slides but at least the pay is good.

Honestly, I never considered path, it feels boring, the only thing that is good in it = money.

>>10598058
wrong

>>10598081
Ok trump.

>>10598080
Seems like an exception, in most of the EU and USA as far as I know path is about average in terms of pay for medical specialties.
The lifestyle doesn't seem bad for someone interested in research, of course if you want patient contact it'll seem boring to you.
But the health risk is mostly caused by formaldehyde right? Aren't there some subspecialties where you don't necessarily deal with preserved tissue

>>10598086
besides formaldehyde you work with all the substances for coloration of the tissue when making slides. About other subspecs I honestly have no idea.

I've contacted dozens of physicians now and not one of them has said "yes" to me shadowing. Most of them don't even reply.
I am asking for 10-20 hours of somebody's time. Was nobody in this city ever a premed looking for clinical experience?

>>10598099
Why don't you volunteer at a hospital? That way you can stay with a resident or something and you save time instead of e-mailing every fucking doctor out there.

>>10598107
Because every hospital wants a 1-year, 100-hour commitment at minimum, plus another 20 hours of orientation. I want 10-20 hours of somebody's time.

>>10598122
wtf. Here if you want to volunteer, you can spend 4 hours shadowing a resident and then go home and come in the next day. It's not that hard.

>>10597402
do they prescribe you Xeljanz?

>>10598099
What did the ones who declined said, what was their reason? Also when you ‘shadow’ do they make you do stuff or you just follow around? And lastly is shadowing official, do you sign anything or is it only agreed upon speech and yoo come in smand go out wherever you want?

>>10598209
Curious about this too. Would really like to know why the other docs refused you.

>>10598099
Why don’t you do something you enjoy and that makes your community a better place instead of jumping through this autistic adcom hoop.

>>10598327
He thinks that a pre-med might get some kind knowledge from the physician. At least something that he will use (which I doubt).

Hey medfags, my bladder sphincter (?) is shit and it lets piss out and semen in when I don't want it to
How do I strengthen it, kegels?

>>10598602
Leaking is after urinating or all the time?

>>10598602
Strengthen it by retaining your farts. You are now only allowed to fart when the clock is exactly on the hour.

>>10598612
After urinating

>>10597926
>carcinogenics exposure
What kind of shithole do you work in that this is of any concern?

>>10598709
Not him but are you serious? Pathologists work with bodies too.

>>10598630
That happens to all men. It's our cross to bear.

>>10598327
Because all adcoms expect shadowing regardless

Do you think it would be possible to work an average of 4h a day as a doctor? I've heard many stories about medical staff working themselves to exhaustion, I'd rather avoid that if possible.

>>10598787
Yeah, sure. Go for chiro school and you'll be a "doctor".

>>10598790
Just wondering if it's feasible to be hired for a 20hour week? Or is that unheard of? I really don't care about making money.

>>10598795
Possible in EM post residency assuming you are in US.

>>10598795
I have no idea. If you work in your private practice you can make whatever schedule you like but you're forced to work more for the money because you have a shit ton of stuff to pay off.

In hospital, I honestly don't know. Maybe clinic hours and stuff, minor things.

>>10598795
Where are you? It’s definitely doable in the U.K.

>>10598813
Sweden

>>10598817
In Finland it's doable in the vast majority of specialties so I would assume the same applies to Sweden.

>>10598714
And?If the job is organized as it should, you will never get close to even the TLVs.

>>10598852
You know you can inhale the stuff, right?

Where can I read about the SSRI withdrawal (mainly electric zaps) and the dose tapering for discontinuation of SSRIs?

>>10598623
You are not pissing out last drops try to gently squeeze it out

>>10589449
I wouldn't trust a doctor who didn't know how to use a vpn and separate his shitposting life from his real life.

>>10598868
Yes, that's what extensive ventilation and constant monitoring is for.

>>10597086
>L1 anterior wedge fracture
>went an entire year without finding out.

I can see why you'd lose trust in the system. If it helps you to know, this presentation is actually quite common for these types of fractures.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3523935/

>>10597086
>>10599011
>>10597086
>>10599011
There are pros and cons to both non-operative management and operative management, which are especially complicated given your younger age.

Nobody other than a spine surgeon will be able to give you an explanation of the available treatment options and a realistic prognosis. The most a GP or general surgeon could do is read some literature about it, and tell you to talk to a spine surgeon.

So my advice to you - talk to a spine surgeon about your options. Ask specifically about the prognosis for both "operative management" and "non-operative management." Ask about the risks of operative management. Then find another spine surgeon and get a second opinion. Get a third opinion if you're still undecided. You're a year out and functioning well, so you don't have to rush into it.

>>10589170
>>10589176
>both mentally ill social rejects have girlfriends
>i'm a well-read med student with decent looks and i've been alone for years
weird world

>>10597086
>Is there anything around the corner in the next 15-20 years of development where a single crushed vertebra can be swapped out cleanly with an artificial one?

To answer your initial question, No. Outside of Star Trek there is no such thing. If such a device is being researched, it has yet to make an appearance anywhere in the medical literature.

You've already listed your only available options: conservative management (doing no invasive intervention), percutaneous (kyphoplasty/vertebroplasty) and spinal fusion.

There newest technology update is doing "minimally invasive spinal fusions", but not everyone is a candidate.

There is an important risk of "failed back surgery syndrome" to discuss

>>10598787
>>10598795
Possibly, for some specialties.

I can see EM, Tele Rads, and Psychiatry working "part time." of 20-30 hours/weekly

Of course, you'll get paid about 40% of what you might otherwise.

>>10598099
>>10598759
Five Ways to Gain Experience Without Shadowing

https://students-residents.aamc.org/choosing-medical-career/article/five-ways-gain-experience-without-shadowing/

If you absolutely have your heart set on shadowing, your best chance will probably be your college pre-med club. While you have to put up with "pre-meds", the club probably have a an actually MD or two on board as an advisor, or they may invite one as a speaker. These would be the MDs to network with, and they may be willing to either take you on or they might know somebody else who would.

>>10599042
You are either a shitty person, have too high standards or don't put in any effort.

>>10597369
It is an axial T1 weighted sequence and I think you have a suspicious hyperintensity at your left occipital lobe cuneus.

Thanks for sharing. Why did you have an MRI done?

>>10597304
Renal cysts are commonly encountered lesions in daily radiological practice.

Usually these are simple benign cysts, but they can become complicated in case of hemorrhage, infection and ischemia

Ignore, Follow or Excise

Renal cysts can be classified according to the Bosniak classification depending on their features.
Type I cysts are simple cysts.
Type II are the minimally complicated cysts.
Type I and II can be ignored.

Type II F are probably benign, but need to be followed.

Type III and IV both are surgical lesions.

Type IV is inevitably malignant and in the type III group about 80-90% turn out to be malignant as well.

>>10592980
Oh, fuck off. I majored in Chemistry because I was under the delusion that you pursue education to "enrich yourself" before going into medicine. Worst decision of my life. The interests of undergraduate STEM professors and the knuckledraggers in Medical School admissions offices are diametrically opposed. Even with a GPA that was in the top quartile of my graduating class and a strong MCAT score, I will never be able to attend an MD program in the US without spending a year at a Masters in Medicine jewscam. If you want to study medicine, major in something easy enough to guarantee a 3.9 or higher.

>>10599186
I should add that I've been published multiple times as well. Doesn't matter; you're not a tax writeoff.

How likely my Lyme disease will give me dementia or alzeimers in the future? I'm pretty sure it's reached my brain. Vision is fucked up and shaky, and my memory/cognition has declined. Just started 3 weeks of antibiotics, but what's the likelihood the bacteria in my brain won't be affected? I'm scared.

>>10599236
Very unlikely

We already told you to keep calm and talk to your doctor.

I don't know why you keep asking the internet and 4chan for medical advice. You're a fucking idiot for doing so.

You're going to become a hypochondriac and start to believe every single problem in your life is due to "chronic lyme" at this rate.

>>10599186
>The interests of undergraduate STEM professors and the knuckledraggers in Medical School admissions offices are diametrically opposed.

Fact.

What was your GPA?

>>10599450
3.65, 520 MCAT

>>10599542
Seems like you'd have a 50% chance, especially if you applied the day AMCAS opened. Did you try all the private schools like GW, Temple, Drexel, NYMC, MCW?

>>10599121
that's 3/3 chief ;_;

>>10598852
>>10598957
Are you saying path does not carry a long term cancer risk?

>>10599073
>low hours, good lifestyle
>high salary
>low stress since rarely on call
>some subspecialties are actually interesting, unlike derm
>can do surgery but can also choose not to
Are there any drawbacks to going for ophto?

i'm an uneducated freshman still doing perquisites. Is biomedical engineeing a good choice?

>>10599542
holy shit, you're acting like you can't get admitted to any MD program anywhere with that and multiple publications? you're leaving something out or you didn't apply to lower-ranked MD schools

>>10599616
nope, just the competitiveness of getting in

>>10599616
you have to enjoy doing nothing but eyeballs

you have to accept never practicing any of the medicine that you learned in med school ever again

you have to score 240 on Step 1

>>10599627
see >>10599186
and
>>10594247
>>10594251

>>10599657
Are any other specs like this or is ophto the only one? The chart anon posted isn't really exhaustive.

>>10594265
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/ican-vs-fda-voluntary-dismissal.pdf
>These requests sought the clinical trials relied upon by the FDA prior to approving any currently licensed influenza or Tdap vaccine for use in pregnant women as an indicated use. … We have no records responsive to your requests.
Completely tested and safe
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK206942/
>The committee found no evidence that a trial has ever been conducted to evaluate the entire immunization schedule
>Experts who addressed the committee pointed not to a body of evidence that had been overlooked but rather to the fact that existing research has not been designed to test the entire immunization schedule.
>studies designed to examine the long-term effects of the cumulative number of vaccines or other aspects of the immunization schedule have not been conducted.
>No studies have compared the differences in health outcomes that some stakeholders questioned between entirely unimmunized populations of children and fully immunized
Super safe that they dont even need to test vaccines before giving you 8 at the same time, I see absolutely no way in which this could have a negative effect on a 2 month old baby getting 8+ vaccines all at once, not once tested together.

>>10599661
>you have to accept never practicing any of the medicine that you learned in med school ever again
Because ophthalmology is so specialized that you never really get involved with general medicine?
I can see how that could be somewhat frustrating

Non English-speaking EUshitter here. What books do you EU and USfriends use for general surgery prep? Interested in a written collection of most common surgical instruments, septics & antiseptics, pre- and postoperative patient care, general principles and the like.

>>10599668
What, lifestyle specialties with little/no call?

Dermatology
Pathology
Radation Oncology
Allergy/Immunolology
Pain medicine
Reproductive Endocrinology
PM&R
Psychiatry outpatient (depends on the practice)
Medical Genetics (depends on the practice)

>>10599677

>>10599681
Try Surgical Recall for some non-rigorous easy reading

>>10599704
What about ENT and nephro, and why rad onc but not med onc?

>>10599727
Thanks!

>>10598086
>>10598094
xylene and toluene are also really common

>>10599729
ENT depends on your practice. If you can get a job that primarily consists of septoplasy, endoscopic sinus surgery, thyroids, etc, you can have a great lifestyle.

Good luck finding a job like this as a new grad, though.

Nephrology is a not a lifestyle specialty at all. Inpatient you have a shit ton of consults on basically every creatinine elevation in the hospital, especially from the surgical/non-IM services . Outpatient you get killed in office work and paperwork for dialysis. And you get paid less than if you just stayed as an IM hospitalist.

>>10599557
>>10599652
I'm from MI. I applied to every MD program here. For out of state schools, I stuck to private schools (Drexel, Loyola, Quinnipiac, Rochester, WF, Miami, etc.). This is my second time applying. The only thing I didn't mention was that I retook the MCAT (506 the first time, mistakenly did it the same week as finals). I'm on the waitlist for Central Michigan right now, but that's about as good as going to a DO school or the Carribean, so I'll probably pass. I keep trying to contact admissions offices, but all I get are automated responses. The only other things I can come up with are a potentially bad PS, an LR from my research advisor who may have secretly harbored a hateboner for people who go into medicine instead of chemistry, and a gap in employment last year after the hospital I worked at had layoffs. Given the laughably short amount of time admissions counselors can spend per application, I am not confident enough to single out any one of these potential issues.

>>10599854
This shouldn't be surprising, but I'm also a white guy.

>>10599854
Did you apply or interview later on in the season, or as soon as AMCAS opened?

>>10599661
>doing nothing but eyeballs
It sounds boring when you say it like that, but I think ophtho is an interesting specialty that will be evolving quite rapidly in the future. Why does nobody ever talk about it?

>>10599866
I had all of my materials submitted by June 1st, but my transcript took a couple of weeks to process.

What kind of chronic condition causes yellow stool, muscle twitches that go away with movement, depression, stomach pains, paranoia, and bodyspread "chronic pain syndrome" ?

>>10600063
Vertebral subluxations

See your chiropractor

>>10600116
not me, but why would that be the case?

>>10600132
The spine is the gateway to your body's health. Even subluxations on the angstrom scale can cause severe pathologies, including AIDS.
Only someone trained in the chiropractic arts can perceive these subliminal disturbances in the spineforce.

>>10599929
It's a great specialty.

Nobody talks about it because the rest of the MD family doesn't really know anything about what they actually do.

Most surgical specialties have a "medical" version, e.g. Cardiology - CT surgery, Nephrology - Urology, Sports Med - Orthopedic surgery, Neurosurg - neurology.

Ophthalmology is isolated from the rest of the MD/DO family because their "medical" variant comes from a completely different profession, the OD optometrist.

I'm an M1 at a supbar state school and I'm basically getting the impression that we're being taught how to take STEP1 rather than actual medicine. Will it probably get better in rotations or am I basically SOL unless I reteach myself everything?

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their pediatrician has tested him for various types of cancer, ALS, and other 'fun' stuff. I'l ask them to get it checked. Are there other possibilities?

>>10600251
Probably Chronic Lyme.

>>10599137
Thanks anon.
About why I got the MRI: I was a passenger in a car when I suddenly had bilateral blue, red and white flashes in my upper field of vision. There even when I closed my eyes. By the time I got home the flashes stopped, but then the migraine started. 9/10 throbbing pain at the forehead, photophobia, hyperacusis, nausea and dizziness. Fast forwards 12 hours, I now have a large blind spot occupying the entire upper left field of vision. Panic, go to ER and get MRI. Docs thought I had a retina detachment. 2 days later, the spot goes away and I'm back to normal. Repeat MRI shows complete resolution.
This is what they found with the 1st MRI: Hyperintense lesion at the left occipital cortex. Suggestive of a focal reversible vasoconstrictive syndrome.

Thought it would be interesting to share with you guys. I still have tiny flashes in my vision to this day even though this event happened 8 years ago.

>>10600251
Savages like you make me sick. This poor child is being subjected to all these barbaric "tests" for diseases that probably aren't even real, all while he's slowly dying.
He needs the healing hand of a chiropractor immediately. I can already tell by looking at this X-ray of another patient that your child has an invisible subluxation. My eyes are trained to detect subluxations on the other side of the planet.

>>10600251
Munchausens by proxy.

>>10600251
Could be that your son has contracted the big gay. I'd recommend a water filter for every tap and faucet in your home and daily supplementation with super male vitality twice a day before meals.

>>10600343
he has been injected with several CCs of the redpill every thursday for 3 months now.
>>10600328
doctors have objectively confirmed their symptoms, they did check for medications/drugs in their system while they did a load of blood tests i think.
>>10600268
his sister does have chronic lyme, but he never had lyme before.

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ding ding ding. filed a report?

>>10599137

chronic sinusitis and CN II looks pissed

>>10600240

ride the waves man your ranking there will determine your future where you really matter.

>>10600063
>ion cause

Inappropriate class effect of psychotropics for schizophrenia requiring ECT and a new modality. Honestly, intention tremors and GI disturbances underlying psychiatric pathology warrant an adjustment to a treatment plan.

>>10599801
>And you get paid less than if you just stayed as an IM hospitalist.

idk sounds like you guys laugh all the way to the bank so your specialty is worth its weight in piss

>>10599854
alright fair enough. that sucks, my dude. looks like you put in good work. keep your head up and you'll get there

>>10600542
>CN II looks pissed
Hah. Patient here. I know nothing about where CN II is, but it certainly was pissed considering how much of my vision was compromised.
And how were you able to tell I have chronic sinusitis just from this simple view, or are you just rusing me? Radiology is so interesting.

New thread, get in there.

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>>10599939
You've done everything right and you definitely know your shit.

You also understand understand the bullshit that is the med school admission process well enough, there's not much else I can do but say
Good luck with the next cycle, anon, you certainly deserve it.

It very well may be a bad LOR, who knows.

Don't ever consider a Caribbean, the risk is too high.

But it's not a bad idea to consider the DO schools during the next cycle. In the end you're a physician either way, and I know it's hard to believe but nobody really cares about MD/DO when you're actually in practice.

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